The frozen leg of lamb was the murder weapon. Mary quickly decided to get rid of it by cooking it in the oven. The big point of the story is that the police are searching everywhere for the murder weapon but it never occurs to them that it could be a frozen leg of lamb. Only Mary and the reader know this. They share the secret--and the guilt. The reader is made an accomplice of...
The frozen leg of lamb was the murder weapon. Mary quickly decided to get rid of it by cooking it in the oven. The big point of the story is that the police are searching everywhere for the murder weapon but it never occurs to them that it could be a frozen leg of lamb. Only Mary and the reader know this. They share the secret--and the guilt. The reader is made an accomplice of Mary because he sympathizes with her motive for killing her husband and also because he is held in her point of view (POV) throughout the story. Mary wants to get the policemen to eat the leg of lamb when it is finally cooked because that is the best way to destroy the evidence completely. She giggles in secret in the next room because it amuses her to see the cops eating the very murder weapon they have been looking for. Mary has changed a lot since the opening of the story. She was dependent and clinging. Now she has become sharp and self-reliant. She has fooled a whole houseful of policemen. One of them is especially amusing because his mouth if full of roasted lamb when he says:
"Probably right under our very noses. What you think, Jack?"
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